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NON-FICTION

October 2010

Voyage to the Heart of the Matter: the ATLAS Experiment at CERN

Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders
Papadakis Publisher
2009
$60.00

In case some people were still harbouring fears that the world's largest science experiment, ATLAS, being conducted in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN could spell the end of the world, the clever adeptness with which Radevsky has engineered the pull-tabs and pop-ups of Voyage to the Heart of Matter should set their minds at ease.

When dealing with science as complex and profound as the work being done at CERN it sometimes helps to go back to basics.

In this four page pop-up book, Sanders and Radevsky have done just that. It comes complete with cardboard models of the Geneva site of the LHC, the enormous and complex underground ATLAS cavern and even a charmingly colourful 3D conception of the Big Bang.

Relevant both for school students and lay people with an interest in this colossal experiment, this book is a good indicator that the 2,500 scientists on the path to discovering the origins of the universe haven't forgotten how to have fun.

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